… an entertaining mess of ideas …

… will steal your heart …

… a viscerally distressing work…

… a fascinating cinematic experiment as much about the flexibility of spoken language as it is about the nuances of film language.

... an enjoyably relatable portrait of a man thriving on his own terms.

… a seductive beauty of a psycho-sexual thriller …

… a monochromatic fever dream, tapping into two equally visceral tones of social horror to bolster its unifying truths about how far relationship dynamics can be twisted.

As fun and beautiful as it is just to look at, Forgotten Island contains cerebral gunpowder in its musings on what connects us to each other…

… end-to-end impressive entertainment value and poignancy …

… bland isn’t much of an improvement over outright terrible.

… dazzles, unsettles, and uplifts with equal cyclonic force.

… intense and well-rounded …

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... a riot from end to end.

… a harsh depiction of an even harsher moment in American history

… an insightful look at sex work that balances serious workplace analysis with a decidedly unserious sense of humour.

… an oddball guided tour through a filmic graveyard, where movie posters are the headstones.

… looks and sounds like the most intense physical meditation that the human body is capable of processing.

Insidious: Out of The Further brings the series back into the light.

… as enjoyable as sunburn.

… stacks everything into the pure survival stakes of the story and its characters, creating a sense of immediate in-the-moment thrills and even solid laughs that aren’t weighed down by anything all th...

… from its gleefully cheeky perspective on sexuality, to its clinically insane yet perfect casting, to its delightfully demented sense of humour, is everything that makes Gregg Araki one of the best f...

Not Super essential, even for the die-hard fans, but you could certainly do worse.

… at once grand in scope and rather jarring, both in tone and genre.

… a feature-length version of one of Drag Race’s acting challenges, where personality means more than character and quips make the scene …

… hour-long navel gaze stained with body fluids.

… an Akira-sliding good time.

… a gorgeously-captured vista of the sheer frustration that can come from attempted discovery of one’s roots.

… all kinds of goofy, but at such a purity to be inspiring.

… as Bleach as Bleach gets.

… as rewarding as it is skin-crawlingly stressful.

... the film still succeeds at that particular blend of exciting, fun, and heartbreaking entertainment that truly makes this franchise so beloved.

It is life, improvised, in all its pain and gradual relief.

… a film that viewers are unlikely to forget in a hurry …

… a kick-arse ride packing equal parts bombast and brainpower.

... can often feel like the characters themselves do at one point: walking in circles.

… an enriching look at art and the complicated relationships we share with it.

… a well-constructed cinematic ballad that manages to harmonise brutal genre trappings and audio with light and breezy NY rom-com aesthetics

… a feel-good movie that isn’t afraid to make the audience (and even its characters) earn those feels …

… a fun and heart-warming romp …

… there’s a winning earnestness radiating from its lead performers that smooths over the potentially-unintentional discomfort, tired rom-com tropes, and occasionally eye-rolling soundtrack.

… a psycho-pop thriller that weaves esoteric magic with a sharp, blood-stained needle.

… has its moments of softly haunting dread, and it features genuinely impressive thematic touches, but the divide between the tension built into its confronting subject matter and the atmosphere actua...

… a big-screen showcase of everything that makes the core series so joyfully watchable.